{"id":1662,"date":"2007-07-17T08:09:56","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T08:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/17\/back-to-the-fut\/"},"modified":"2007-07-17T08:09:56","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T08:09:56","slug":"back-to-the-fut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/17\/back-to-the-fut\/","title":{"rendered":"BACK TO THE FUTURE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cindy_dunbarton_oaks_1969\"<\/a> Some picture, huh?<\/p>\n

Yesterday a friend who is writing a book about the TV news business in the 60’s and 70’s asked me for some photos from the time we worked together.  As I went through old albums and pulled out the few I had, I found this one.  I remember the day it was taken – a sunny spring Sunday in Washington in a public garden.  Newly out of college, newly employed, newly in possession of a Nikon, I’d gone with a friend to take photos of all things lovely.  She took this one of me.  (note to all curly haired people – this look was achieved by sleeping with hair wrapped around orange juice cans!)  <\/p>\n

Almost 40 years later, I am surprised that I look at this with pleasure, not sadness.  I expected the familiar "ah I looked so much better then – so much was ahead of me" stuff but found none.  <\/p>\n

I’m sure something is still there – I got kind of weepy going through the books and seeing family photos from when the boys were little – so much time gone by.  But that’s nostalgia for the joy that comes from wonderful children and the memories lucky families build.  But this photo – no pangs at all.  <\/p>\n

Nope.  I was a lucky girl.  I had more adventures by the time I was 25 than many people get in a lifetime and I’m still having them.  So there she is – the weekend me from the beginning of my grown-up life, young and happy in the sunshine.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some picture, huh? Yesterday a friend who is writing a book about the TV news business in the 60’s and 70’s asked me for some photos from the time we worked together.  As I went through old albums and pulled out the few I had, I found this one.  I remember the day it was … Continue reading BACK TO THE FUTURE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4,6,7,9,97],"tags":[1548,192,107,365,193,2200],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-baby-boom","category-culture","category-life","category-politics","category-television","tag-70s","tag-aging-2","tag-baby-boom-2","tag-memories","tag-time","tag-youth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-qO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}